In this section, we’ll be looking at the top users on GoodReads who have the most “to-read” books.

Most Wanted-To-Read Books

Let’s first look at the most popular books our top 15 users want to read.

Top 15 To-Read books for Top 15 Users
Title Authors Number of Top Users
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger 6
The Fault in Our Stars John Green 5
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens, Richard Maxwell, Hablot Knight Browne 5
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children, #1) Ransom Riggs 5
Much Ado About Nothing William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Gail Kern Paster, Robert Jackson 5
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald 4
The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien 4
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) Stieg Larsson, Reg Keeland 4
Lord of the Flies William Golding 4
Memoirs of a Geisha Arthur Golden 4
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) George R.R. Martin 4
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë, Michael Mason 4
The Notebook (The Notebook, #1) Nicholas Sparks 4
Life of Pi Yann Martel 4
The Book Thief Markus Zusak 4

The books that the most of the top 15 users wanted to read is “The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger, followed by “The Fault in Our Stars” by John Green and “A Tale of Two Cities” by Charles Dickens.

Top Genres

Now, let’s look at the top genres for the 15 Users using distinct book titles.

Now let’s look at the top genres of the top users’ books.

Top To-Read genres for Top 15 Users
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young adult 177
classics 151
fiction 124
fantasy 116
non-fiction 99
romance 52
horror 47
mystery 45
graphic novels 33
historical-fiction 26
manga 21
science fiction 18
christianity 17
humor 17
memoir 16
plays 16
chick-lit 13
vampires 13
poetry 12
history 11
self-help 10
comics 9
biography 7
children 7
contemporary 7
lgbtq 6
art 5
dystopian 5
philosophy 5
psychology 5
short-stories 5
travel 5

The most popular to-read genre among the top 15 users is young adult. The next most popular genres are classics and fiction.